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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (369873)2/5/2008 4:09:05 AM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1572733
 
Mindmeld, > How much for debt, social security and health care payments? I'd guess $1.6 trillion. So what are we left with? $800B for the rest of our gov't expenditures. That sux.

It's worse than you think.

IIRC, Social Security and Medicare make up about half of the federal budget. That $1.6 trillion doesn't include interest on the debt.

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